CIO Summit 2026: The Future Unfolds

Since the formation of Oaktree in 1995, Mr. Marks has been responsible for ensuring the firm’s adherence to its core investment philosophy; communicating closely with clients concerning products and strategies; and contributing his experience to big-picture decisions relating to investments and corporate direction.  From 1985 until 1995, Mr. Marks led the groups at The TCW Group, Inc. that were responsible for investments in distressed debt, high yield bonds, and convertible securities.  Previously, Mr. Marks was with Citicorp Investment Management for 16 years, where from 1978 to 1985 he was Vice President and senior portfolio manager in charge of convertible and high yield securities.  Between 1969 and 1978, he was an equity research analyst and, subsequently, Citicorp's Director of Research.  Mr. Marks holds a B.S.Ec. degree cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance and an M.B.A. in accounting and marketing from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago.  He is a CFA® charterholder. Mr. Marks is a Trustee and Member of the Investment Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a member of the Investment Committee of the Royal Drawing School in London.  He also serves as a Director of Brookfield Corporation, and is a member of the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Council.  Howard is an Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the Investment Board.

Dr. Adam S. Posen is President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has contributed to research and public policy on G20 macroeconomic policies, inflation targeting and central bank independence, European economic integration since the euro, Japan’s recovery from its Great Recession, and recently a series of influential articles on the future of globalization amidst China-US conflict. From 2009 to 2012, Posen served as an external voting member of the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He served seven terms on the Panel of Economic Advisors to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. He is the recipient of the CBE medal for his service to British economic policy and of the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays for his contributions to Japanese economic policy. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard University.

Alexander Wright is Partner, and Global Wealth Strategist. Previously, Alexander was a portfolio manager for Apollo's closed end funds, CLOs and private BDC. Prior to joining in 2011, he was with GSC Group where he served in a variety of different roles, most recently as Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Head of US Corporate Debt. Before that, Alexander was with IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Corporation and Chemical Banking Corporation.

Alexander graduated from Rutgers College with a BA in Political Science and a minor in Economics and earned his MBA from Fordham University. Alexander serves on the Fordham University President's Council and is Chairman of the Fordham Gabelli School of Business Alternative Investment Council.

Fabiana Fedeli is Chief Investment Officer Equities, Multi Asset and Sustainability at M&G Investments. She is a member of the Executive Committee of M&G Investments (Asset Management). Ms Fedeli leads a team of investment professionals deploying over US$100bn globally across multiple asset classes, based in the UK, Continental Europe, the US and Asia.

Prior to joining M&G Investments, Ms. Fedeli served as Global Head of Fundamental Equities and Emerging Markets Equities Portfolio Manager at Robeco. Prior to joining Robeco, she was a Portfolio Manager Asian Equities at Pioneer Asset Management and a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Occam Asset Management.

Ms. Fedeli began her career at ING Barings Tokyo as a Research Analyst in Japanese equities in 1999. Ms. Fedeli holds a Master's in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and a Bachelor's in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan. She also received a Certificate in Financial Asset Management and Engineering from the University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ms. Fedeli is Chair of the Investment Committee of The Investment Association, a trade body representing Investment Managers in the UK that collectively manage over £10 trillion in assets. She is also a member of the Investment Committee of UK-based The Open University. Ms. Fedeli is also a non-executive director of Relmada Therapeutics (Nasdaq: RLMD), a late-stage biotechnology company. Ms. Fedeli has been named among Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, and she was awarded the ‘Excellence in Asset Management’ honour at the European Women in Finance Awards.

Guo Kai is Executive President and Senior Fellow of CF40 Institute. Before joining CF40 Institute,
Dr. Guo was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and then worked
at the People’s Bank of China in various capacities, including in the Monetary Policy Department
and the International Department. His main research areas include the Chinese economy and its
macroeconomic policies as well as international finance. Dr. Guo is the author of three popular
Chinese economics books and multiple academic papers in various English and Chinese journals.
Dr. Guo holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University.

John Emerson works in global distribution as vice chairman of Capital Group International, Inc. He has 25 years of industry experience, all with Capital Group.

From 2013 to 2017, he served as the United States ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2015, John was awarded the State Department's Susan M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service, which is given annually to one non-career ambassador, , and in 2017 he was awarded the CIA Medal and the U.S. Navy's Distinguished Public Service award.

Prior to accepting the ambassadorial posting, John spent 16 years as president of Private Client Services for the Capital Group Companies. Before joining Capital, he was deputy assistant to President Clinton where he coordinated his economic conferences, served as the president's liaison to the nation’s governors, and led the administration's efforts to obtain congressional approval of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreement and the extension of China's MFN trading status. Additionally, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Before working in the Clinton White House, John served as Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney, and was a partner in the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg, and Phillips.

Ambassador Emerson currently serves as Chairman of the American Council on Germany and on the boards of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the German Marshall Fund, the American Friends of the Munich Security Conference, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the Music Center Foundation. Previously he served as Chairman of the Music Center of Los Angeles (2003-11), Vice Chairman of the Los Angeles Metropolitan YMCA (2007-13), and as Chair of the first ever Los Angeles City Independent Redistricting Commission (2001). He is a long serving member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

John holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from Hamilton College, a juris doctorate degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelors degree in philosophy from Hamilton College. John is based in Los Angeles.

John Studzinski CBE is an American British financier and philanthropist. He is Vice Chairman and Managing Director of PIMCO, where he helps advance the firm’s global strategy and serves as a key strategic advisor to clients worldwide. Mr. Studzinski previously held senior leadership positions at Blackstone, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley.

Parallel to his finance career, Mr. Studzinski is a philanthropist focused on the arts, human rights, and homelessness. In 2001, he founded the Genesis Foundation to nurture emerging creative talent. He serves on the board of the J. Paul Getty Trust and chairs the Benjamin Franklin House Museum. He also co-founded The Passage to address homelessness and the Arise Foundation to combat human trafficking. He is Vice Chair Emeritus of Human Rights Watch.

Mr. Studzinski is the author of A Talent for Giving: Creating a more generous society that benefits everyone, and a regular contributor to the BBC’s Thought for the Day, which explores modern issues from a faith perspective.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College. In 2008, he was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to the Arts and Charity, and his philanthropy has received honours from Pope John Paul II, the Prince of Wales in 2014 and the Beacon Prize.

Lauren Goodwin (New York) joined KKR in 2026 and is a Managing Director and the Chief Investment Strategist for the firm's Global Wealth Solutions business. Ms. Goodwin works closely with KKR's Global Macro and Asset Allocation (GMAA) team to deliver macro and market insights, educational resources, and portfolio frameworks to financial advisors.

Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Goodwin served as Chief Market Strategist at New York Life Investment Management, where she led the Global Market Strategy team and was responsible for economic and market research, asset allocation, and thought leadership. She previously held senior roles within the firm's Multi-Asset Solutions team focused on research, asset allocation, and portfolio strategy. Earlier in her career, Ms. Goodwin held economist positions at Wells Fargo, Frontier Strategy Group, J.P. Morgan, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She developed the CFA Institute’s curriculum on geopolitical risk and is a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle.

Ms. Goodwin holds an M.A. in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A., summa cum laude, in International Relations from the University of Southern California. She is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Robin Hu is Emeritus Asia Chairman of the Milken Institute and served as Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Timor-Leste from 2023 to 2026. At Temasek, he headed the Sustainability and International Policy groups and served as Vice Chairman for Asia and Operating Partner before becoming its senior advisor.

He chairs Mandai Nature, a non-profit dedicated to biodiversity protection and wildlife conservation across Southeast Asia, and is Chairman of Parkway Trust Management Limited, manager of the Singapore-listed Parkway-Life REIT. He also serves as a board director of the WHO Foundation.

Prior to Temasek, Mr. Hu was Group CEO of Hong Kong-listed South China Morning Post Ltd., where he led its digital transformation and subsequent sale to the Alibaba Group. In the 1990s, he led Singapore’s systems transfer for the Suzhou Industrial Park.

Having lived and worked across Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong, he brings a cross-regional perspective to questions of strategic competition, geopolitics, and capital allocation. His career spans information technology, media, finance, and public service.

Mr. Hu writes on strategic competition, capital flows, and Asia’s economic transition. His commentary appears in Nikkei Asia, Project Syndicate, South China Morning Post, Lianhe Zaobao, and the Hinrich Foundation, and reaches policymakers, boards, and capital allocators globally.

He serves on international advisory councils for the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Bank of Singapore’s Chief Investment Office.

Mr. Yuichi Murao is Nomura Asset Management’s Global Head of Japanese Equity, starting in the position in April 2026. Prior to that, he was CIO of the firm’s entire investment strategies. He started his career with Nomura in 1990 as a portfolio manager in charge of domestic pension funds and has since extended coverage to international institutional investors. Previously, he has also been chairman of Nomura Asset Management’s Japanese Stock Selection Committee as well as Japanese Equity Investment Strategy Committee. 

Mr. Murao holds an MBA from London Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Will Wang is Managing Director of I Win Securities Limited and concurrently serves as Head of the CAIA Greater China Chapter. He has near 30 years of extensive experience in the wealth management industry and has held senior management positions at a number of renowned financial institutions in Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, including Julius Baer, Barclays, and China Merchants Bank International etc.

Will has been a CAIA member since 2005 and also holds the CFA and CMT charters.

Jason Moo was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Singapore in March 2023.

He joined Bank of Singapore from Julius Baer, where he was Head Private Banking Southeast Asia and Branch Manager Singapore.

Prior to joining Julius Baer in 2020, Jason worked at Goldman Sachs for more than two decades and has held several senior roles, including CEO of Goldman Sachs Singapore and Head of Southeast Asia and Australia for Private Wealth Management (PWM).

Before relocating back to Singapore, he was based in Hong Kong as Head of Market Solutions Group and Head of Alternative Capital Markets Asia Pacific.

Prior to that, he worked in the Equities Merchandising Group in New York. He joined Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst in PWM in Singapore upon graduation.

Jason earned a BA in Economics and East Asia Studies, with a focus on Japan, from Brown University, USA.

He serves on the Board of Governors of Raffles Institution.

Jean Chia is Bank of Singapore’s Global CIO, responsible for the CIO Investment Institute which covers macro insights, portfolio strategy and investment strategy for multi-asset portfolios for wealth and asset management. Jean is responsible for Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM), Advisory Portfolio Management (APM), Funds Selection and Alternatives Investment at Bank of Singapore. Jean is a member of Bank of Singapore’s Global Management Committee and chairs the Bank’s Investment Committee and Sustainable Investment Governance Committee. She chairs the board of directors for BOS International Fund, Luxembourg and is part of the OCBC Wealth Panel.

Jean has over 25 years of experience in Private Banking and Asset Management. She was previously Head, Equities Advisory & Sales, responsible for the equities and derivatives business at Bank of Singapore, and Head of Client Advisory Services, Investment Products & Services at UBS Wealth Management, Singapore. Prior to UBS, she was Vice President, Head of Grassroots Research at Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (now known as Allianz Global Investors).

Jean graduated with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford, UK. She currently serves on the Development Advisory Board of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.

Jean holds a Sustainable Finance certification from Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership (CISL). She is a Financial Women’s Association of Singapore (FWA) Female Champion and the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Fellow for Private Banking and Wealth Management. Jean is a Director on the Board of Mandai Nature, the conservation arm established by Mandai Wildlife Group and Temasek.

Eli Lee is Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist at Bank of Singapore and plays a leading role in developing strategic and tactical portfolio asset allocation and thematic strategies across global asset classes and alternative investments for the overall banking group and portfolio management teams. He is a central member of Bank of Singapore’s Investment Committee, which determines the bank’s overall investment direction, and is an internal member of the BOS-CIO Global Advisory Council.

He was previously Head of Investment Strategy, during which he and his team spearheaded the transformation of the group’s investment allocations to alternative investments and oversaw the optimization of target allocations for the group’s medium- and long-term portfolio strategies. Before that, he was the Head of Equities Research and advanced the development of the group’s global equity coverage platform across US, Europe and Asia and investment processes in equity alpha generation.

Prior to joining Bank of Singapore and the OCBC Group, he was an investment analyst in the fixed income department at the Wellington Management Company in Boston. He began his career as an associate in Charles River Associates, a consulting firm in Boston specializing in arbitration in the financial sector. Eli also sits on the Wealth Panel of OCBC Group and serves as a member of the Investment Committee for The Salvation Army Singapore. Eli graduated from Harvard University with a master’s degree in Statistics.

Mansoor Mohi-uddin is a macroeconomist and financial market strategist with two decades experience covering institutional investors around the world. Mansoor speaks to policymakers and central bankers and maintains links with think-tanks in Washington and Beijing. He appears on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, his work features in The Economist and he has written for the Financial Times.

Mansoor was most recently at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment arm, NatWest Markets, where he was the Asia region's Macro Strategist and previously the bank’s Global Head of FX Strategy. Prior to joining RBS, Mansoor spent 17 years at UBS in London, Zurich and Singapore where he was also Global Head of FX Strategy from 2002 to 2014. Mansoor holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

He was tutored by Professor Charles Goodhart, a former Chief Adviser at the Bank of England.

Dr Owi S. Ruivivar is a seasoned investment manager with over 30 years of experience in economics, investment strategy and portfolio management. She is the Chief Portfolio Strategist at Bank of Singapore and is a member of the Bank’s investment committee that decides on the strategic and tactical asset allocation calls for clients.

Dr Ruivivar joins from Singapore’s GIC where she spearheaded investment-oriented thematic research at the Economics and Investment Strategy department. She also led the Future Markets investing team, which oversaw multi-asset investments across private and public markets in frontier Emerging Markets countries. During her tenure, Dr Ruivivar launched the GIC Research Network, which built cross-departmental research communities to leverage insights across the company and scale ideas for the total portfolio’s benefit.

Prior to GIC, Dr Ruivivar spent 17 years (2002 – 2019) with Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) where she was a founding portfolio manager of its Lipper-awarded Emerging Market debt franchise, responsible for over USD 60 billion in assets. She relocated from New York to Singapore in 2010, to establish and oversee GSAM’s Asia fixed income business.

Previously, Dr Ruivivar held roles at BNP Paribas and the International Monetary Fund. Dr Ruivivar graduated with a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In recognition of her academic achievements, she has been awarded various scholarships and fellowships, including the National Science Foundation Graduate fellowship, the MIT Graduate Fellowship, the John Harvard Scholarship, the Harvard College Scholarship and the Agassiz Scholarship.

Dr Ruivivar is fluent in English and French and proficient in Filipino.

Kelvin Tang joined Bank of Singapore in July 2020. As the Head of Chief Investment Office, HK Branch, he is responsible for spearheading the development of the portfolio management initiatives in Hong Kong and is also a member of the Bank of Singapore Investment Committee (BIC).

Kelvin Tang has over 25 years of experience in the fund management industry, overseeing mutual funds, pension funds and private bank accounts. Kelvin joined Samsung Asset Management (HK) Limited in August 2011 as Deputy CIO and senior portfolio manager and was responsible for  overseeing research and all China-related investments. Prior to Samsung, he was the SVP and senior portfolio manager for DBS Asset Management (HK) Limited, and the Beijing representative of Changsheng Fund Management (Beijing) – a joint venue partially owned by DBS AM SG. Before DBS, Kelvin was the Executive Director of Manulife Asset Management (HK) Limited, where he managed one of the largest MPF portfolios in Hong Kong.

Kelvin holds an MBA from University of Lancaster and he is a CFA holder.

Joseph Ng is a Senior Investment Strategist within the highly regarded Chief Investment Office in Bank of Singapore. Joseph provides thought leadership on a host of cross-asset investment topics, with a particular emphasis on global equities. Throughout his time in the bank, Joseph has been known for his timely calls and deep insights, and has been frequently interviewed and quoted by various media outlets. Joseph also covers the Global Technology sector for the bank, and has experience navigating a range of topical issues pertaining to the internet, cloud, and the impact of geopolitics on technology. In his earlier career, Joseph has also spent time on the sell-side in the area of real estate within Singapore and China. 

Joseph graduated with a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and holds a MSc in Management from the London Business School. Joseph is also a CFA charterholder.